Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young

Professor Dame Lesley Regan, obstetrician and gynaecologist

Professor Dame Lesley Regan is the Government’s first Women’s Health Ambassador for England. She...

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Patrick Grant, designer and broadcaster

Patrick Grant is a designer, clothing entrepreneur and a judge on the BBC TV programme The Great...

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Dame Donna Langley, film studio executive

Dame Donna Langley is chairman and chief content officer for the NBC Universal Studio Group, the...

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Greg Jackson, entrepreneur

Greg Jackson is the founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. The company is the UK’s second largest...

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Katherine Ryan, comedian

Katherine Ryan is a Canadian comedian and writer. Her edgy and provocative routines have led to...

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Lucinda Russell, horse trainer

Lucinda Russell is a Scottish racehorse trainer. Her stables in Kinross have sent out almost 900...

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Adrian Edmondson, actor, writer

Adrian Edmondson first shot to national fame in 1982, playing the studded punk Vyvyan in the TV...

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Classic Desert Island Discs - Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren is the first performer to win the Best Actress Academy Award for a role in a foreign...

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Classic Desert Island Discs - Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu is a retired nurse, campaigner and Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the...

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Classic Desert Island Discs - Elton John

Michael Parkinson's castaway is singer Elton John in a programme first broadcast in 1986.

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Classic Desert Island Discs - Ann Leslie

Sue Lawley's castaway is foreign correspondent Ann Leslie in a programme first broadcast in 2004....

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Classic Desert Island Discs - Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan is best known for reviving the Batman film franchise and for directing the...

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Shirley Collins, folk singer

Shirley Collins first enjoyed success as one of the leading figures in the British folk revival...

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Toto Wolff, Formula 1 executive

Toto Wolff is CEO and Team Principal of the Mercedes Formula 1 motor racing team. He has led the...

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Simon Woolley, crossbench peer

Simon Woolley, Lord Woolley of Woodford, is principal of Homerton College at Cambridge...

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Jill Scott, footballer

Jill Scott is the second most capped England footballer ever, playing for her country 161 times....

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Peter Doig, artist

Peter Doig is one of Britain’s most successful living artists. His paintings have been exhibited...

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Stanley Tucci, actor

Stanley Tucci is an actor, director and writer who is known for his roles in a broad range of...

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Kate Mosse, writer

Kate Mosse OBE is a British novelist and broadcaster. She is the author of ten novels and short...

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Adam Kay, writer

Adam Kay is a writer whose memoir This is Going to Hurt; Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor won...

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